Improvement in gaiter-shoes



UNITED STATES PATENT EEICE.

AMAZIAH M. PREBLE, OF LYNN, MASSACHUSETTS.

IMPROVEMENT IN GAlTER-SHOES.

' Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 53,483, dated March 27, 1866.

To all whom t may conce/ru:

Be it known that I, AMAZIAH M. PREBLE, ot' Lynn, in the county ot' Essex and State of Massachusetts, have invented a new and useful Improvementin Gaiter-Shoes or Balmoral Boots; and I do hereby declare the same to be fully described in the following specification and represented in the accompanying drawings, otl which- Figure l is a side View ot' a gaiter-shoe or balmoral as provided with my invention. Fig. 2 is a front view ot' it. Fig. 3 is a front View of the shoe without the ily.

The nature ot' my invention consists in a lacing-shoe y as provided with an elastic gore arranged longitudinally in it, such ily being applied to the shoe by means of buttons attached to the shoe and by button-holes made in the Hy and myinvention t'urtherconsists in the combination ot' such a y and a series'of buttons with the instep lacing-holes and openingl ot' a gaiter-shoe or balmoral.

In .the drawings, A denotes a gaiter-shoe or balmoral7 of which a is the instep-opening, the shoe at or near each of the edges ot' such opening being provided with a row of lacingholes or eyelets, as shown at b b, the same being to receive a lacing.

The ily is exhibited at B, the same consisting of one or more layers of leather or other suitable material properly formed so as to lap over and beyond and cover the instepopen ing, such fly having button-holes c c c along its edges for connecting it with the shoe by corresponding ranges of buttons d d d d disposed on opposite sides of the instep-opening, or in manner as exhibited in the drawings.

The jy is split down longitudinally from its upper end, and has an elasticgore, g,iuserted in the opening, the saine being so as t0 enable the fly to t and accommodate itself to the instep and button to the buttons ot' the shoe when the shoe may be on the foot of a person.

The elastic y and its buttons may answer as a substitute for the lacing and the eyeletholes thereof, or it may be used without such lacing and holes. The yin either| case serves to protect and cover what is underneath it, and to make a fine finish to the boot or shoe.

1. rlhe ily as made with the elastic gore arranged in it, as described.

2. rlhe combination and arrangement of the fly and its buttons with theinstep-opening, or the same and its lacing and lacing-holes, the Whole being substantially as hereinbet'ore described.

A. M. PEEBLE.

Witnesses:

lt. H. EDDY, F. P. HALE. 

